Service comparison

CockroachDB vs. PlanetScale

CockroachDB vs. PlanetScale — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 11 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

CockroachDB

cockroachlabs.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  99.00%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  3
  
  2 major · 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 16m
- Longest outage
  
  19h 40m
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PlanetScale

planetscale.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  98.93%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  8
  
  5 major · 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  47m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	CockroachDB	PlanetScale	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	100.00%	98.61%	+1.39 pp
Last 30 days	99.82%	99.34%	+0.48 pp
Last 90 days	99.00%	98.93%	+0.07 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (CockroachDB minus PlanetScale). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

CockroachDB

3 total

2 major 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 16m
- Longest outage
  
  19h 40m
PlanetScale

8 total

5 major 3 minor
- Median resolution
  
  47m
- Longest outage
  
  16h 59m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

CockroachDB
- Jul 12
  
  Cluster Creation Failure
  
  1h 16m
  
  Major
- Jun 9
  
  Unable to accept invites
  
  36m
  
  Minor
- May 8
  
  Degraded performance in one AWS us-east-1 availability zone
  
  19h 40m
  
  Major
- Mar 18
  
  Cloud Console Social Login Auth Unavailable
  
  39m
  
  Major
- Mar 1
  
  Cluster unavailability and degraded cluster operations in AWS me-central...
  
  10d 4h 39m
  
  Minor
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PlanetScale
- Jul 20
  
  Insights metrics underreporting
  
  Ongoing
  
  Minor
- Jul 18
  
  Connectivity issues in us-east-1
  
  32m
  
  Major
- Jul 17
  
  API and dashboard errors
  
  27m
  
  Major
- Jul 16
  
  Single Sign On (SSO) unavailable
  
  1h 21m
  
  Minor
- Jul 6
  
  Development branches with MySQL Vectors not serving
  
  2h 26m
  
  Major
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Bottom line

CockroachDB wins

CockroachDB edges out on 90-day uptime.

CockroachDB posted 99.00% vs. 98.93% for PlanetScale (Δ +0.07 pp). Incidents: 3 vs. 8 (-5).

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